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Posted by 47thpresident 1/2/2026

Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere(indieweb.org)
1075 points | 246 commentspage 7
neves 7 days ago||
How do we deal with the fact that billionaires’ social media platforms reduce the reach of posts with links? Will we always have our posts throttled?
jamietanna 1/2/2026||
I've been doing this for years with my site, and it's brought me a lot of joy that I can go back and search my site for various posts I've made over the last decade across all the platforms I use - I have a more high friction setup, but that's because of my own terrible choices
ishweta 1/3/2026||
is it really working ?
GaryBluto 1/2/2026||
If only HN had been doing this almost since it's inception. Oh wait.
maximgeorge 1/3/2026||
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vikas-sharma 1/2/2026||
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ivaibhavgupta 1/3/2026||
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156890237 1/3/2026||
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vegabook 1/2/2026|
This post like many recent ones like it, essentially wants the internet to go backwards to what it once was pre-LLMs [edit: and pre-concentration]. I'd like to suggest that you should follow through and go all the way to pre-internet itself, and rediscover handwriting, in-person local meeting groups, non-digital relationships, and using your hands not on a keyboard. Today I (with difficulty) left my macbook closed all day until this evening (and this comment). Small steps.
torh 1/2/2026||
I read this as an ownership issue, where Meta owns your content as long as you post on Facebook or Instagram, and has nothing to do with LLMs.
tonyedgecombe 1/2/2026||
Meta and all the other AI companies think they own it even when it’s on your site.
BeetleB 1/3/2026|||
+1 for writing letters. I do it with two people (one lives in the same city!)

But it's not an either/or proposition.

Also, keep in mind that POSSE and this site predate LLMs by quite a bit.

ozgrakkurt 1/3/2026|||
LLMs had no impact on how content is organized as far as I can tell.

Some people are just using it to post more garbage into the platforms they already were using

dingnuts 1/2/2026||
I understand this attitude but when I look back at my rural youth I just hear you telling me that I should have had no one to talk to at all about many things.

Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater

vegabook 7 days ago||
You should treasure said rural youth because such lonely luxuries are rare, and will be even more so in the future. Spoken as a rural youth myself.